A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

Animals can evolve separately but end up evolving toward other species, too, or even spontaneously evolve the same ...

Convergent evolution essentially happens when animals and plants have to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches ...

There is no elegant way to eat crab straight from the shell.

We recently talked a lot about blue crabs but didn't talk about those who prefer to eat them instead of cut them up for bait.

It's true: Crabs keep turning up in nature, and it's bothering scientists so much that they've been given federal grants to get to the bottom of it. The phenomenon is so widely known that it's been ...

Get into the festive holiday spirit with a critter that goes all out when decking its halls out: the graceful decorator crab.

Scientists are unsure how a Chinese mitten crab made its way to one of Oregon's largest rivers, but population control is ...